What Easter Brings

Happy Blessed Easter. “ON THE EVENING OF THAT DAY, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THE DOORS BEING LOCKED WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS, JESUS CAME AND STOOD AMONG THEM AND SAID TO THEM, “PEACE BE WITH YOU.” 20 WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE. THEN THE DISCIPLES WERE GLAD WHEN THEY SAW THE LORD. 21 JESUS SAID TO THEM AGAIN, “PEACE BE WITH YOU. AS THE FATHER HAS SENT ME, EVEN SO I AM SENDING YOU.”
This same Jesus stands before us today in all the power of His resurrection life and speaks peace to us. We can’t mistake Him because His scars are self-evident and we cannot escape Him because we need our guilt canceled and our fears calmed and our doubts cleared. Thank God we can know the reality of this transforming experience because of the scars of the Savior. We can have “peace with God” — the peace of salvation, justification. We can have “the peace of God” — the peace of sanctification, the peace that comes to yielded lives, following Jesus.